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Code Metal

Lead Backend Engineer (Modeling & Simulation)

Boston Hub

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
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About the role

  • This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who wants to write code while also providing technical leadership for a small team of backend engineers.
  • You will help define service architecture, implementation patterns, API contracts, integration boundaries, and delivery standards across backend systems.
  • This is not a people-management-only role.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services, APIs, workers, and integration layers, primarily in Python.
  • Lead a small team of backend engineers while remaining deeply hands-on in the codebase.
  • Translate product goals, domain requirements, and technical constraints into clear backend designs and implementation plans.
  • Partner with platform engineering leads to ensure services are deployable, observable, secure, and reliable across cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Partner with data engineering leads to define service boundaries, data contracts, persistence patterns, and integration points.
  • Own backend architecture decisions for service design, API design, domain logic, asynchronous workflows, and system boundaries.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and implementing backend services, APIs, background workers, and integration layers.
  • Strong understanding of service architecture, domain modeling, API contracts, and backend system design.
  • Experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL or similar systems.
  • Experience working with ORMs and migration frameworks such as:
  • Experience with cloud deployment patterns in AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar environments.
  • Ability to convert ambiguous requirements into practical engineering plans and working software.
  • Experience with FastAPI, Flask, Django, or similar Python backend frameworks.
  • Experience with Pydantic, OpenAPI, JSON Schema, protobuf, or other typed contract systems.
  • Experience with asynchronous processing, message queues, event-driven systems, or workflow orchestration.
  • Experience with containerized services using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar platforms.

Compensation

  • Pay depends on experience, but we strive to be at the upper end of the salary range

Benefits

  • Health care plan with 100% premium coverage, including medical, dental, and vision
  • Paid Time Off (uncapped vacation, plus sick and public holidays)
  • Experience building systems for regulated, security-sensitive, defense, government, financial, healthcare, or other enterprise environments.
  • Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangement

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer.
  • We are an equal opportunity employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • US Citizenship may be required for certain project assignments involving security clearance
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